When a hyper Bob Cole hollered: ‘They’re goin’ home!’ as Red Army players filed past him, he never thought hockey fans would be imitating his call 40 years later.
Cole was more worried that his bosses might send him home, too, back to Newfoundland to cool off, after getting carried away in the midst of the emotionally charged climax of Super Series ’76 against the Philadelphia Flyers,
“I just lost it that day,” the 82-year-old Cole recalled of Monday’s four-decade anniversary. “From our broadcast position at the old Spectrum, you could reach out and touch the Russians as they went by.